Investors who can stomach more risk stand to reap greater rewards. That's where small-cap growth stocks come in, and they just might deserve a place in your buy-and-hold portfolio.Research shows that growth stocks with small market capitalizations - market values between roughly $300 million and $3 billion - tend to outperform larger asset classes over time. Indeed, the so-called small firm effect was documented by Eugene Fama, a winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics."Because they usually are young and lack exposure, small-cap growth companies tend to fly under the radar," writes financial services company Federated Investors. "They are less closely followed and understood by the community of securities analysts, which sometimes means they sell for less than their true or potential value, creating opportunities if the market comes to re-price their shares accordingly."To get a sense of which small-cap growth stocks look ripe for the picking these days, we screened the small-cap benchmark S&P; SmallCap 600 Growth Index for stocks with the highest average analyst ratings. We limited ourselves to companies with market caps of at least $1 billion. Furthermore, our stocks had to have a minimum of five "Strong Buy" analyst recommendations.S&P; Global Market Intelligence surveys analysts' ratings on stocks and scores them on a five-point scale, where 1.0 equals a "Strong Buy" and 5.0 means a "Strong Sell." Any score lower than 3.0 means that analysts, on average, rate the stock as being buy-worthy. The closer the score gets to 1.0, the better.Based on those criteria, here's a look at the 10 best-rated small-cap growth stocks in the S&P; SmallCap 600 Growth Index. SEE ALSO: 10 Small-Cap Value Stocks Analysts Love the Most

The elite funds run by legendary investors such as David Tepper and Dan Loeb make hundreds of millions of dollars for themselves and their investors by spending enormous resources doing research on small cap stocks that big investment banks don't follow. Because of their pay structures, they have strong incentives to do the research necessary […]

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